ENG: Oleksandr Balabko: Roles and Mannequins

“Roles and Mannequins” by Oleksandr Balabko is a psychological novel-metaphor about the falseness of social masks and the loss of identity.
Key Points About the Book:
Plot: Life as a theater where people turn into “mannequins,” playing other people’s roles for the sake of success or peace of mind.
Conflict: The struggle of a living soul against a mechanical existence in a world where sincerity has been replaced by imitation.
Atmosphere: Intellectual prose with deep philosophical undertones and an analysis of human relationships.
Theme: A call to shed the artificial shell in order to find one’s true self and genuine freedom.
This is a poignant drama about the choice between a comfortable role and a real life.